People under the age of 20, please?

[Spardus]

Pop music is awful, but what makes it unbearable for me is that 99% of pop artists can't write their own songs. There are literally millions of people more talented than say, Nicki Minaj or Rihanna because they have actual musical knowledge. If someone were to ask Nicki Minaj what a time signature was, she'd be clueless. The people who write the songs (horrible to listen to or not) are talented as they know how to structure songs, not the puppets who sing them and are rich simply because they're basically covering songs and the majority of their fans are none the wiser. There are plenty of people who could sing these songs as well or better than them, but they get pushed away from fame because of looks or whatever. People like Rihanna and Beyonce are not artists, they are entertainers. They are paid to entertain, not to write music, and in my eyes, that keeps them from being musicians.